I just replayed the first two games in the series again as I accidently erased my old saves. I decided to finally save Ash instead of Kaidan for once. Get to Horizon and the first thing out of her mouth 'I'm no fan of Aliens...'

Man I hate Ashley. One playthrough on the ME3 with her then I'm editing my saves to get Kaidan back.

I will say though, after playing all three in sequence, it's much more apparent how improved the later games are from the first. The powers and classes really start to play different (whereas in 1 there's pretty minimal difference between Sentinel, Vanguard and Adept, especially with bonus powers) and how much smoother combat and the whole experience was. This is honestly my favorite series for the PC.